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Chapter 1: What do producers need to know about BRIDGE payments?
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But we've been asked over the years to have a virtual portal, a way to interact, not only with FSA, but the other agencies within the mission area, in a way that we don't have to go to the office. We've got better things to do with our time. And so this has been the option.
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So the Farm for Profit podcast, we've been around since 2014. We've done over 700 episodes, and we've focused a lot on telling the stories of farmers who have been there and done that or sharing tips, trends, techniques, new pieces of technology that are going to help farmers make more money. So that's the perspective that a lot of our content comes from. Fantastic.
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Yeah. So farm where? Central Iowa. So I'm just down the road. I'm in Bethany, Missouri.
Yeah. Oh, hey. Yeah. Missouri boy.
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Chapter 2: How is USDA modernizing its technology for farmers?
So this job, the undersecretary for farm production and conservation. So I'm an undersecretary. So I serve at the will of the president, serve at the will of Secretary Rollins. And the mission area has all of the farmer facing agencies. So it's NRCS, FSA. And RMA are the agencies within the Farm Production and Conservation Missionary.
More acronyms. But all stuff that we know very well.
So you can't function in the federal government unless you have a whole bunch of acronyms? Yeah. Yeah. That's how we talk.
It's code.
It's code.
You don't even need to disguise it. You just talk in real acronyms and nobody really understands. That's right. Well, that's good. Well, Corey and Dave both got on their laptops since we've been in San Antonio.
We did.
Got signed up for their bridge payments.
Fantastic. How long did it take? Not long at all. I know.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the upcoming U.S.-China trade meeting?
And there's more stuff going online, correct? There is, yeah. Before everything, we had to go to the FSA office. We had to get there.
Yeah. Yeah, you had to physically go there.
You had to get in the truck.
It was a lot of old, antiquated, pen and paper type stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, emphasis on paper. Yeah. Paper. And we could talk about acreage reporting in a minute if you want to. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so we knew for a number of reasons how we needed to modernize, you know, be more – so advance technology a little bit farther when it comes to farmers engaging with the agencies. And so there's a number of reasons for that. One is –
If you put a form in an envelope and run it through the U.S. Postal Service, it costs, depending on the program, it costs us between $1.2 million, $1.3 million for each program, just to mail to mail. an application out.
And how many got lost?
Well, I'm sure there were several. I'm actually not being critical of the US Postal Service. That just happens, right? But it does, yeah. There's machines and they suck under the bottom and they're gone. So we knew we could save some money there. And then just, we've been asked by, and it's not strictly generational, but we've been asked over the years to have a virtual portal, a way to interact
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Chapter 4: What are the priorities for the upcoming Farm Bill?
And that One Farmer, One File is part policy. It's part technology. But if you're engaging with FSA on a program or if you're doing something with NRCS and and you've got things you're working with your crop insurance agent on, you're likely signing forms or doing something that is redundant to what you just may have done at another agency.
So streamlining those forms and allowing those forms in a digital format to talk to one another and talk to the other agencies. You're only doing this once. You're not doing it three times.
So we're bringing the government into 2026. It's shocking. That's what you're saying. It's shocking, but yes. The rest of the world operates there. I'm just making sure.
The rest of the world does operate there, and we don't. We currently don't. I've said bring it into the current century.
Well, is this allowing you guys to do more with less people? Because I know there's a lot of county offices that have consolidated to, like, one county is running three counties.
Right, right. I think that's a piece of it. You know, and so we still, you know, we still absolutely value that county office presence. There are just times when you're going to need to talk to a human. Yeah. And so, again, we talk about we're meeting farmers where they are. Yeah. And that's... That's a decision that individual farmer makes, right?
And so having the opportunity to do things virtually, digitally, also having that presence in the office, but the technology modernization, so the one farmer, one file piece, we've not done the analysis on how many staff hours that will reduce, but it'll be a bunch. But the cool thing that's coming is modernized acreage reporting.
And so currently, if you report your acres at FSA, maybe don't report them through RMA, We're going to give you a paper map and a pencil, and we're going to ask you to literally write corn in that field and the date you planted it.
And once you get your farm all filled out and all those fields, you're going to slide that paper map back across the counter to the program analyst in the office, and then he or she are going to do a data entry. And they're basically going to enter in everything that you just drew with a pencil on a paper map. Lottery tendency.
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Chapter 5: How can farmers apply for BRIDGE payments effectively?
So phase two. And so, so you'll have to go to the office to report that, but it's going to be under a whole different, whole different format in the way we do that. Once you report it in that geospatial platform, the geospatial map layer in this platform. When you enter corn on May 1st, then it is in. Nobody's got to type anything in. There's no data entry.
Phase two is you'll be able to do that very same thing on a phone. But that's not where we're going. And that's probably next year. The final phase of the modernized acreage reporting is literally, if you've got Green Star, you can grant permissions just like you share with your crop insurance agent, your fertilizer dealer, whatever. Be an API right into OpsCenter. Exactly.
And so we're actually working with John Deere, and we're working with Case IH, and we're working with Any manufacturer that's going to. And so when you're finished, I mean, there's a lot of ways this could go, but let's say you're not really worried about it until you're done planning.
When you're done planning, you know, there's going to be some option in Green Star because we're truly working with the manufacturers as well right now. There'll be an option in Green Star that says share with FSA. And you'll do that, and that planning information has now populated your acreage report.
Yep.
I mean, this is super cool to go from a paper map and a pencil to this maybe in two years.
And then some DocuSign. You can sign it.
Absolutely.
It's changing fast.
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Chapter 6: What technology upgrades are being implemented at USDA?
And I think the president, the secretary, the undersecretary for trade at USDA, they're laser focused on finding new markets in the international market space.
I'm glad to hear it.
And I'm very confident they're going to accomplish that. And these will look different than what we historically have seen. We've been so reliant on China, for example, in the soybean space. That, you know, maybe China is still going to be a trading partner. I mean, they will have to be.
But looking at looking at places where we maybe don't have trade today and could be critical markets, as you see, like population shifts, population growth in countries. And I'm very confident we're going to get there.
I like that. I got one more. You got one more? I didn't. You can go. I just wanted to know for our listeners where you think our next big win is coming from. What's the closest thing we think to tipping over a potential change that's going to affect us in a positive way?
Yeah, you know, it's a great question, and it's a hard question.
We've got Farm Bill coming up.
We've got ethanol stuff. Yeah, you know, I think, you know.
President's going to China in April, I think.
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Chapter 7: How will the Farm Bill impact agricultural policies in 2026?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. And so, you know, while we're talking about technology modernization, we're also looking at regulatory reform or process improvement. Right. And, So the NRCS chief works for me, and she was talking this morning in a meeting we had on the NEPA regulations.
So you do a conservation practice, you've got to have all the NEPA inspections done, and you've got to check all these boxes, and you've got to have four or five different people come out and look and make sure you're not disturbing something. She's streamlining that, and she's streamlining it to the point of,
Still offering protections for landowners that want to do conservation practices so five years from now you don't get sued by somebody. And also complying with the law. But there's some things in there that we don't have to do. And so if we don't have to do them, why are we doing them?
There you go. Well, Tanner's going to have to wrap us up. We do. You've got places to be. I've got one question. What do you got? We're fun guys. We've got fun shirts. You do. Beer, cocktail, or wine? Beer. There it is. What kind of beer? Is there a beer of choice?
Cold.
Cold. There you go. That's good. Thank you for your time. We really appreciate it. Absolutely.
Thank you. Great to meet you.
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Chapter 8: What future challenges and opportunities do farmers face in the global market?
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